Reply #147: Please forgive me TfC and my rudeness in answering so late...

[anaxarchos]

I don't know what to say because I think you are precisely correct in this post and those that follow (which in itself is a positive experience for me... pleasure to meet ya).

The "game" was an "creation". It came from many crying fraud and OTOH saying that there were other plausible explanations... The "game" also came from a rather primitive attempt to put some rules around the discussion so that one person could propose a scenario, others could attempt to refute and still others would defend. The idea, I think, was to prevent 15 scenarios from boiling around at once. OTOH may have confused us both by putting up a premise without a defense (i.e. what makes this "plausible"). I'm guessing that part is coming....